Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: A Lesson Before Dying: Posing Questions
Prepare to write by posing and answering questions about a prompt. This will help you refine our understanding of the prompt.
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Pbs Learning Media: All Dressed Up
All Dressed Up shows a dog being groomed and asks the student to write a story about what the dog is thinking.
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Pbs Learning Media: Where Is the Chemistry?
After watching several outdoor activies the students are asked to explain where the chemistry is in relation to the activities shown.
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Pbs Learning Media: The Red Dynasty
Why is the person pictured in the portrait important? Please identify him and explain.
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Pbs Learning Media: The Game
After watching this brief interchange over a chessboard, please write what you think the dialogue is for the two players.
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Pbs Learning Media: Hard Cash
"Hard Cash" shows coins being sorted and asks the students to describe what metals are used in making coins and why.
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Pbs Learning Media: Laughing
A video from Write Now providing a unique writing prompt about laughter.
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Pbs Learning Media: New War
How does war, with today's technology, differ from the wars in the past where soldiers fought another face-to-face?
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Pbs Learning Media: Priorities
This clip asks students to think about what their most valuable way is to spend their free time.
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Pbs Learning Media: Stupid or Smart?
This video clip highlights several dangerous hobbies/past times and asks students to explain if they would do any of these and why.
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Pbs Learning Media: Tourists!
Write a dialogue for the gulls, who appear to be having some issues with the humans cluttering their beach.
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Pbs Learning Media: Traveling
Is it more important to know where you are going or where you have been?
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Pbs Learning Media: Just for You
Students are asked to explain how plants and animals may be classified as natural resources.
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Pbs Learning Media: Now You See It
Students are asked to identify ways to help these endangered or threatened species.
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Pbs Learning Media: What a Pest
Students are asked to identify issues related to integrated pest management and how they affect the environment.
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Pbs Learning Media: Science Now! Agony of Defeat
A video clip asks students to explain how forces and motion affect the skier in the film. This is one in a series of creative writing prompts. [0:32]
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Pbs Learning Media: Space Travel
Students are asked to explain why the astronauts in the video are floating and what problems this phenomenon creates for people that travel in space.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Color Game
Click the buttons to get a unique starter for a descriptive piece of writing. You can make up a story, a poem, anything you like.
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English & Fun!: Strip Cartoons & Stories
This is a collection of printable cartoon and reading activities teachers can use with their younger ELL/ESL students. Materials include writing prompts, role and finger plays, limericks, and an activity on superlatives and comparatives.
Daily Teaching Tools
Daily Teaching Tools: Late to Class
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides a graphic organizer. Students will be able to respond in writing to an explanatory writing prompt. This tool may be used as a reflective writing prompt for students who are late.
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Daily Teaching Tools: Manners
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides a writing prompt. Students will write about the topic as a means of reflecting on their manners.
Daily Teaching Tools
Daily Teaching Tools: Discipline Packet
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides reproducible packet that will engage students in reflecting about their behavior. The packet may be used as typical writing prompts or as part of a classroom management system. Additional...